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For several years, Haiti has been facing a multidimensional crisis: Approximately 5.7 million people are facing high levels of acute food insecurity – the highest number in recent years (IPC March-June 2025), nearly 1.3 million people are in displacement (IOM DTM Round 10 – June 2025), deportations of Haitians to Haiti continue to increase with more than 600,000 people deported between 2021 and 2025, including over 130,000 people during the first six months of 2025 (IOM DTM), more than 1,000 schools have been affected by the security crisis causing disruptions to the education of more than 243,000 children (Haiti Education Cluster, May 2025), 6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance (HNRP, February 2025), etc., all of this adding to a structural situation that was already worrying, particularly after the earthquakes of 2010 and 2021 from which the country had yet to recover.
In this context, in addition to immediate humanitarian responses, transition, recovery, and stabilization interventions are crucial to strengthening the resilience and stability of communities.
Thus, in late 2024, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) introduced the Stability Index in Haiti, a tool aimed at assessing the stability of areas hosting displaced persons and identifying the factors that most influence this stability, in order to determine priority interventions for stabilization, recovery and transition, and contribute to durable solutions to displacement. The Stability Index measures populations' perceptions of stability and analyzes the factors influencing these perceptions. It provides information enabling the development of strategies integrating humanitarian, transition, recovery and stabilization approaches in fragile areas and to inform the prioritization of resources by identifying priority factors on which to focus interventions according to the context of each area of the country. In a fragile context, this tool makes it possible to identify the different pockets of stability or instability and adapt which response approaches are appropriate to each area. This report presents results of the first round of data collection of the stability index, carried out in Haiti between 1 November and 31 December 2024. Depending on available resources, IOM Haiti aims to carry out this exercise every six months in order to monitor changes in perceptions of stability and the factors most influential on these perceptions.